With the increasing impact of disasters worldwide, Disaster Risk Management has become a crucial aspect of national development agendas.

In recent years, there has been growing recognition that disaster risk reduction initiatives have the potential to save thousands of lives and are pivotal in reducing the negative impacts of hazards towards the achievement of sustainable development.

The World Bank’s strategy for disaster risk management recognizes the need to strengthen the capacity and quality of national, state, and local disaster management.

WBI’s Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Learning Program aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of its partners to enable them to provide far-reaching, customized learning based on contemporary knowledge in disaster risk management.

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